Casket-handle.



E. R. SARGENT.

GASKET HANDLE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2, 1912.

Patented June 25, 1912.

WITNESSES.-

COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH C0-. WASHINGTDN, IL :14

rmrrn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD R. SARGENT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 SARGENT & COllIL PANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CASKET-HANDLE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD It. SARGEN'I, a citizen of the United States, residing in New Haven, county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket- Handles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to casket handles, and more particularly to the construction of the bar suspended from the casket by means of the hanger-arms. The bar ordinarily consists of a body portion or tube of sheet metal or other suitable material, and ornamental tips (usually of cast metal) having sockets in which the ends of the tube are secured. Heretofore the connection between the tip and the tube has usually been effected, at least in so far as I am aware, by means of a wooden plug which is first driven into and secured in a projecting position in the open end of the tube, after which the tip is placed on the end of the tube and then secured by means of a pin, or other suitable means, to the projecting end of the plug. This form of connection has the disadvanage that the wooden plug shrinks to a certain extent, within a comparatively short time, thereby loosening or impairing the connection of the tip with the tube. Moreover, the bulkiness of the plugs makes it necessary to reserve a considerable space for them in the factory in which the casket handles are made.

The object of the present invention is to obviate these disadvantages by providing a construction in which the wooden plug, or its equivalent, is dispensed with, and wherein the tube and tip are secured together by a fastening or connection which is more di rect, simpler, cheaper, and generally more satisfactory than those heretofore devised.

To these ends, my invention consists in the novel features and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, in which I have shown one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of a casket handle bar embodying the invention, the tube being broken away, and the tip at one end being shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2 is a detail view of one end of the tube, Fig. 3 is a transverse section through one end of the tube, Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1, Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2, with the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 2, 1912.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Serial No. 681,147.

tube turned through 90, and Fig. 6 is a detail View of one of the connecting pins.

Referring to the drawing, the usual hollow body portion or tube of the bar is shown at 7, and the tips fitted over the respective ends of said tube are shown at 8. Inasmuch as both tips are connected to the tube in the same manner, a description of one of the connections will suflice.

The tip 8 is provided with a polygonal socket or bearing portion 9, corresponding in cross section to the tube 7. In the embodiment illustrated, the tube 7 and socket 9 are of square cross section, as shown in Fig. 4, but this is obviously not an essential feature in all aspects of the invention. The socket or bearing portion 9 of the tip should be of sufficient depth to form a firm and satisfactory bearing for the end of the tube, which is inserted in the socket, and has a relatively large part of its periphery in frictional contact with the inner faces of the socket walls, as shown in Fig. 4. It will be understood, therefore, that the tip is frictionally fitted over the end of the tube, and in order to increase the security of the connection, I employ a positive locking connection between the tube and the socket portion of the tip, as will now be described. In the embodiment illustrated certain sides of the tube wall (preferably two opposite sides, as shown) are provided with integral portions 10, alternating with depressed integral portions 11*, said portions being cut through or perforated in such a manner as to provide a transverse passage or seat 12 (Fig. 2) parallel to the tube wall, for receiving a con necting pin 13. Hence, if the connecting pin 13 is driven through the wall of the socket 9 into one of the passages 12, the tip and the tube will be firmly interlocked, as shown in Fig. 4, by reason of the locking of the pin in the end of the tube and the an choring of the respective ends of the pin in the wall of the socket 9. It will therefore be understood that if, for example, two connecting pins be used for fastening each tip to the tube, as shown in Fig. 4, an effective and direct interlocking of the tip and tube will be provided. The arrangement is preferably such that when the heads 13 of the connecting pins are substantially flush with the outer surface of the tip, the opposite pointed ends 13 of the respective pins will penetrate and be held fast in the opposite wall of the tip, as shown in Fig. 4, without however, projecting through said wall. Therefore the only parts of the connection which are visible to the eye when the bar has been completed, are the heads 13 of the connecting pins 13, and it is, of course, an easy matter to place the pin heads at the bottom of the bar or at the rear of the same, where they will not be noticed in the ordinary course of events. The appearance of the pin heads at the outside of the completed bar need not be objectionable, in any case, for they may be so designed and placed as to accord with the beading or other ornamentation of the handle, as in the example illustrated.

It will be understood that the number of pins used for directly interlocking each tip with the body portion or tube of the bar, is entirely optional, but I have found that the arrangement shown, embodying two oppositely placed pins, will afford a simple fastening of the required strength.

The device may be cheaply manufactured, and the insertion of the pins into the tips and bar can be easily effected. The pins retain their positions indefinitely, when once placed, because they are not only frictionally engaged with opposite walls of the tips, but also with the projecting portions 10, 11, and 11 struck up from the tube walls. All wabbling of the tip is prevented by the wide bearing surface afforded by the socket walls, the connecting pins being preferably located atbsome distance from the extremity of the tu e.

Without limiting myself to the construction shown, I claim 1. The combination with a tube, of a tip fitting over one end of said tube, and pins extending transversely across said tip and supported between opposite walls thereof, said pins being interlocked with the walls of the tube; substantially as described.

2. A bar for casket handles, comprising a tube having a portion struck out from the wall thereof, and a tip fitting over the end of said tube and carrying a pin interlocked with said struck out portion; substantially as described.

3. A bar for casket handles, comprising a sheet metal tube having perforated depressions struck out from the wall thereof, and a tip fitting over said tube and carrying a pin interlocked with said depressions; substantially as described.

4. A bar for casket handles, comprising a tube of sheet metal having a perforated depression struck out from its wall to form a transverse passage, a tip fitting over the tube, and a pin anchored in the tip and passing through said transverse passage in the tube wall substantially as described.

5. A bar for casket handles, comprising a sheet metal tube having a portion struck up from its wall and perforated, in order to form a pin passage directed transversely of said tube, a tip fitting over the tube, and a transverse pin carried by said tip and passing through said pin passage; substantially as described.

6. A bar for casket handles, comprising a sheet metal tube having an approximately fiat wall, a tip fitting over one end of said tube, a pin extending across and anchored in said tip and lying in a plane approximately parallel to the aforesaid fiat wall of the tube, and means for interlocking said pin with said wall; substantially as described.

7. A bar for casket handles, comprising a sheet metal tube of polygonal cross-section having a fiat bearing surface at the end, that part of the tube wall having said bearing surface being provided with a depressed perforated portion affording a pin passage, a tip having a polygonal socket fitting over the end of the tube around the fiat bearing surface thereof, and a pin extending across and anchored in the tip socket and passing through the aforesaid pin passage; substantially as described.

8. The combination of a tube having a transverse passage in one of its walls formed by a plurality of perforated portions integral with said wall, a tip fitting over said tube, and a pin carried by the tip and extending through, said passage in the tube wall; substantially as described.

9. The combination of a tube of polygonal cross sect-ion, having portions struck up from one of its walls to present a passage directed transversely of the tube in a plane parallel to said wall, a tip having a polygonal socket fitting over said tube, and a transverse pin carried by said socket and extending through the aforesaid passage; substantially as described.

10. The combination of a tube of polygonal cross sect-ion, having portions struck up 7 from one of its walls to present a passage directed transversely of the tube in a plane parallel to said wall, a tip fitting over said tube, and a transverse pin carried by said tip and extending through the aforesaid passage, said pin extending bet-ween and being supported by opposite walls of the tip; substantially as described.

' 11. The combination with a tip having a socket of square cross-section, of pins extending between and supported by opposite walls of said socket, and a tube fitting in said socket and having opposite walls interlocked with said pins; substantially as described.

12. In a bar for casket handles, a tip having a socket portion of polygonal cross section, a tube of polygonal cross section fitting within said socket and having a relatively wide bearing portion therein, pins directed transversely of said tube within said socket portion, but spaced from the end of said In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set tube, and pgrtio lls siijruck up inte%ra]i(1y frolrln my hand on the 1st day of March, 1912.

the Walls 0 saic tu e, and inter 0c in t ,e

same With said pins, the respective ends of EDWARD SARGENT' each pin being socketed in and supported by Witnesses:

opposite Walls of the tip socket; substan- HENRY E. ROCKWELL,

tially as described. THOMAS Hnwms.

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